{"id":13392,"date":"2023-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=13392"},"modified":"2023-06-03T06:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:48:57","slug":"acs-provides-employment-help-for-spouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=13392","title":{"rendered":"ACS provides employment help for spouses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VICENZA, Italy <\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u2013 When spouses arrive in Italy they might be expecting the same opportunities as being stateside. Overseas assignments are different in many ways including employment options.<\/p>\n

The Army Community Service offers the Employment Readiness Program,\u00a0staffed by, Sarah Connors, a dedicated representative who helps with navigating the employment options. Her experience comes from working at the education center, the transition assistance program, and now as a career counselor at ACS.<\/p>\n

She sends biweekly notices to the more than 800 people enrolled in the ERP, who receive current positions that include non-appropriated funds or NAF, appropriated funds or GS, and contract jobs among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt any given time there are about 60 positions in the Vicenza Military Community,\u201d Connors said.<\/p>\n

Last year she met with more than 600 clients to discuss employment. One of the topics she focuses on is federal resume support.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy spouses that come from stateside many times have never had experience applying for jobs in the federal system [USAJobs],\u201d Connors said.<\/p>\n

Some of the barriers to matching spouses with jobs include childcare, flexible schedules to match with sponsors\u2019 time off including holiday and summer block leave, and military training schedules, but the biggest hurdle is the federal hiring system. The program helps identify and look for ways to lower the hurdles.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation and information on how this process works and how to be effective when applying for jobs is 90 percent of the battle,\u201d said Connors. “My spouses are qualified and well educated and experienced, but they can\u2019t get through the system and end of giving up. But the facts are that oftentimes they\u2019re not packaging their skills and knowledge that bring them to the top of the list and get through that system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The solution she sees that works is providing federal resume writing workshops and one on one resume writing assistance.<\/p>\n

Connors has developed a 3-step process to help spouses, starting with identifying transferable skills. \u201cWhen you break down what you\u2019ve done by transferable skills you\u2019ll see you’re eligible for a lot more than just what you\u2019ve done,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext perform a gap analysis. Basically look at what the job is asking for and look at what you have to identify any gaps and then talk about how to fill that gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also reaches out to other offices in ACS that can assist including the Army Volunteer Corps, the American Red Cross, and the Transition Assistance Program to help bridge the gaps either through education or experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, tailoring the resume to highlight the qualifications and accomplishments for the job you are applying for. The typical resume does not meet the federal resume system to get through the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow you do anything is the how you do everything, so make sure the resume reflects a quality product,\u201d Connors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VICENZA, Italy \u00ad\u00ad\u2013 When spouses arrive in Italy they might be expecting the same opportunities as being stateside. Overseas assignments are different in many ways including employment options. The Army Community Service offers the Employment Readiness Program,\u00a0staffed by, Sarah Connors, a dedicated representative who helps with navigating the employment options. Her experience comes from working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13394,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13395,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392\/revisions\/13395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}